Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 34 - Dartmouth Women's Head Coach Danielle Spencer - a podcast by Jamie Munro

Danielle Spencer - Head Women's Coach at Dartmouth

01:05 Danielle's Journey
-Started playing in Junior High
-Was seen first in gym class
-Different from coach Curtis and Kelly at Northwester
-Rochester Hall of Fame
-Playing at Northwestern
-Her best friend Hilary Bowen
-What Kelly taught Danielle as far as creativity and a female athlete
-Referencing those days as a coach

10:15 Kelly's Coaching Tree and Other Northwestern Relationships
-Lindsey Munday as a coach to Danielle
-Other assistant coaches running other programs
-Learning to love coach from all her role models
-Teammates who are now coaching
-Katrina Dowd
-The fun culture

16:17 Going from an Assistant Coach to a Head Coach
-Pride for your program
-New ways of building relationships
-Getting trust in self and voice
-Going from playing a role from managing
-Trust
-Being able to shape a culture

21:47 What You Want to be Known for?
-Women of the Woods
-Tough, confident, gritty
-Outdoorsy element
-Confidence and pride
-Being brave
-Applying everything in the real world after
-Sports as a learning laboratory

27:27 Using Messages to Create a Well Functioning Team
-Hard taking criticism at first and learning to take it
-Letting players have a say and give feedback
-Leadership teams called "Squads"
-Deciding on goals that where player driven

33:14 Philosophy on Player Development
-Making everything tougher
-Make practice harder then games
-Partner passing on the run at speed

39:12 Advice to High School Coaches to See Them Prepare
-Spend more time teaching how to play a great defender
-Team defense
-Crosschecking
-Working on things inside the 8 meter
-Learning to get your shot off

47:34 Shooting With Your Stick to the Inside
-Make one more pass across the crease
-Alley shots almost become selfish
-Box lacrosse influence and the one more pass
-Terrible shots as turnovers

50:41 2 Man Game
-Seeing it a lot
-Doesn't fit the offensive identity right now at Dartmouth
-Seeing it in other sports
-Communication problem
-Make it harder to slide

54:37 Recruiting
-Used to think about the best athletes
-Position specific
-Playing with players all over the world
-Finding a balance of not feeding from the same spot all the time and getting good caliber players with good lax IQ
-Time restriction for skill development in the Ivy League
-Scenarios of IQ at prospect camps
-Coachability
-Getting player on the whiteboard in recruiting

Prospect Camps:
Overnight - July 25th - 28th @ Dartmouth

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